Partnair

Partnair was a Norwegian charter airline company owned by Terje and Rolf Thoresen. The company remained in business from 1968 until 1989. [Store norske leksikon, entry on "Partnair" [http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=712071&o=1&search=Partnair online (subscription required)] no icon] The company operated a fleet of smaller aircraft such as the Beechcraft King Air, and some larger planes such as the Convair 440 and Convair 580.

Incidents and accidents

On September 8 1989, a Partnair Flight 394, a Convair Metropolitan chartered by a Norwegian shipping company to fly from Oslo to Hamburg crashed off the Skagerak coast in Denmark near Hirtshals, killing 55 people. Partnair went out of business shortly afterwards.

External links

* [http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?airlinesearch=Partnair&distinct_entry=true Images of Partnair planes]